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About the book

Description

"Remodeling Reality: The Impact of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics on Our Worldview” is focused on the conceptual and philosophical aspects of modern physics and the personalities of the physicists responsible for introducing these revolutionary ideas. It can be used as the primary text for a one-semester course aimed at Liberal Arts students or as supplementary reading in traditional courses in Modern Physics or Quantum Mechanics.

Content

The First 2000 Years

The Birth of Science

The Greek Worldview

The Middle Ages

The Scientific Revolution and the Modern Worldview

Nicolaus Copernicus

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

Nineteenth Century Physics

Atoms in the 19th Century

The Chemical Elements

The Nature of Light

Energy

Unresolved Questions at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Observations That Appeared To Defy Analysis Using Classical Physics

The Scientific Worldview at the Start of the 20-th Century

Max Planck and the Concept of the Quantum

Max Planck

The Concept of the Quantum

Albert Einstein and the Miracle Year

The Photoelectric Effect and the Quantum Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation

Brownian Motion and the Reality of Atoms

Special Relativity and Space-time

The Equivalence of Matter and Energy

Einstein’s Fifth Paper

Length Contraction and Time Dilation

The Relativity of Speed

The Relativity of Time

Time Dilation

Length Contraction

The Twin Paradox

The General Theory of Relativity

The Principle of Equivalence

The General Theory of Relativity

Evidence for the General Theory of Relativity

The General Theory of Relativity Today

The Bohr Model of the Atom

Classical Models of the Atom

The Bohr Model of the Atom

Problems with the Bohr Model

Werner Heisenberg and Matrix Mechanics

Werner Heisenberg

Matrix Mechanics

Erwin Schrodinger and Wave Mechanics

De Broglie Waves

Schrodinger’s Wave Equation

Max Born and the Interpretation of the Wave Function

Schrodinger’s Interpretation

Max Born’s Interpretation

The Double-Slit Experiment

Indeterminacy

Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle

Werner Heisenberg

The 1927 Solvay Conference

The 1930 Solvay Conference

Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen Interpretation

The Correspondence Principle and Complementarity

The Copenhagen Interpretation

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Challenge and Bell’s Inequality

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment

Bell’s Inequality

The Delayed-Choice Experiment and Schrodinger’s Cat

The Delayed-Choice Experiment

Schrodinger’s Cat

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